Why We Shouldn’t Throw School Testing Out Even Though It’s Not Perfect
Asking teachers to prepare their students for an exam is not an instance of American anti-intellectualism, but a practice that can be found across the globe.
Why Is The Trump Administration Stomping All Over Arizona’s School Testing Freedom?
This rejection of state autonomy does not help convince that Washington is prepared to ‘empower states to lead the way,’ or that the Trump administration really supports school choice.
Utah Bill Would Amp Up Federal Testing Pressure On Kids
In addition to making it more difficult for families to opt out of state testing due to social pressure, this bill would push the state towards embracing a national curriculum.
Let’s Drop Common Core And Let All Families Truly Choose Their Schools
Centralized mandates have neutered school choice by imposing one kind of education on all schools, thereby actually reducing families’ education choices, finds a new paper.
Trump Education Department Strongarms Utah Families Who Oppose Testing Mandates
The U.S. Department of Education is clear in its threat to withhold millions of dollars from Utah simply for following state law and protecting parental rights.
Students Should Be Responsible For Their Performance, Not Just Teachers
Failing to meet expected test growth targets does not affect my fifth grade students in any real way, and they and their families know it.
How Common Core Taught Me Bureaucrats Will Always Win Unless We Slash Big Government
My state, Oklahoma, was one of the first and only to repeal Common Core. It took years of work, and ultimately accomplished just about nothing.
Post-Common Core, U.S. Kids Slide On Another Academic Measure
If this test is an early indicator of fourth grade declines, U.S. schools will have increased per-pupil spending 400 percent since the 1970s to no achievement gains.
Why Megan McArdle Shouldn’t Lose Faith In School Choice Just Yet
School choice hasn’t been tried and found wanting. It’s been found politically difficult and not really tried.
Bill Gates Tacitly Admits His Common Core Experiment Was A Failure
It looks like this is as close to an apology or admission of failure as we’re going to get, folks. Sorry about that $4 trillion and mangled years of education for American K-12 kids and teachers.
Thanks To Testing Backlash, Virginia Drops U.S. History Tests Despite Horrific Public Ignorance
Complaints about testing are a direct consequence of three decades of Republican-driven emphasis on using tests as a centralized mechanism for controlling schools.
How Schools’ Failures With Gifted Children Drive The Test Prep Industry
Test-prep culture preys on the anxieties of parents who have been inundated with the message that every parenting decision can have long-lasting effects on their children.
Federal Education Mandates Divert Resources From Minority Kids
What Education Secretary John King is doing in the name of minority kids will actually make their education worse.
Get Ready To Ditch The SAT And ACT
As the two major college entrance exams have shifted to support Common Core, parents and colleges are creating alternative exams that emphasize classic content.
Stick A Fork In Common Core—It’s Done
The postmortems will roll out in a year or two, but it’s already clear Common Core is eking out its last gasps. Inside its mayhem lies opportunity.
New Federal Education Law Enshrines ‘New Common Core’
Once again, the party of limited government helps expand it, this time in a new law that supposedly replaces No Child Left Behind and Common Core.
9 Promises Common Core Has Already Broken
The establishment wants you to think Common Core is a shiny legacy for departing Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Nothing close.
‘Every Child Achieves’ Won’t Fix The Fed-Ed Farce
Bills to rewrite No Child Left Behind put Republicans in a bad political position and expand the federal role in education.
The Civil Disobedience Charles Murray Wants Has Already Arrived
Incidents like testing opt-outs and parent fury in Fairfax show people get Charles Murray’s point about refusing to comply with stupid regulations.
7 Exciting Education Reform Ideas Republicans Need To Try
Education reform debates such as the pending No Child Left Behind update are boring because the Right’s politicos accept the premise that government knows best.
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